Putting more women on the city’s male-dominated boards is overdue and will improve its competitiveness with London and New York. ( read original story ...)
JD Logistics Seeks Up to $3.4 Billion in Hong Kong IPO
JD Logistics Inc., the delivery arm of e-commerce giant JD.com Inc., is seeking to raise as much as HK$26.4 billion ($3.4 billion) in its Hong Kong initial public offering, seizing on China’s online ... ( read original story ...)
JD Logistics launches Hong Kong IPO to raise up to $3.4 billion – filings
JD Logistics will price its shares between $HK39.36 and $HK43.36 each as the company aims to raise up to $3.4 billion, according to the company's filings. The logistics offshoot of JD.com Inc will ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Hong Kong tightens restrictions on Taiwan arrivals, while Singapore and Japan could be next
Unvaccinated travellers will have to undergo quarantine at designated hotels for 21 days and show negative coronavirus test before boarding flights ... ( read original story ...)
Carrie Lam’s Tokyo Olympics TV deal: a bid to reignite Hong Kong’s patriotic fervour like in Beijing 2008?
As Hong Kong snaps up the broadcast rights to the Tokyo Games, observers wonder if what it really seeks is a national pride pick-me-up from a bygone time when most Hongkongers identified as Chinese. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: four-month-old baby is youngest in Hong Kong to locally contract variant from South Africa
A four-month-old baby has become the youngest person in Hong Kong to locally contract the more transmissible coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa, authorities have said. The revelation ... ( read original story ...)
New Hong Kong regulations threaten to stifle financial hub
From limiting public access to corporate information to a potential travel ban, new rules and proposals by the Hong Kong government have raised concerns over the city's future as a free and open ... ( read original story ...)
Finance chief expects Hong Kong’s jobless rate to keep dropping
With a warming economy in the first quarter, Paul Chan, Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, expects the jobless rate of the financial hub would ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s jobless rate will drop noticeably due to sharp rebound in economy, easing of Covid-19 situation, finance minister says
Paul Chan hopes unemployment and underemployment rates will fall sharply after city’s economy expanded by 7.9 per cent year on year in the first three months of 2021. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong-based French patisserie Paul Lafayet eyes a bigger share of China’s growing market for Western-style desserts
Paul Lafayet plans to open around 100 outlets on the mainland, as it eyes China’s growing market for desserts that is set to reach US$37.6 billion a year by 2025. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong reports 4 new cases of COVID-19
Hong Kong Center for Health Protection CHP reported four new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday taking the total tally in th ... ( read original story ...)
Trading places: As democrats exit, how will Hong Kong’s ‘patriots’ do in their new starring role?
If only this new national security episode was not bringing so much grief to so many, the experience might be appreciated as a kind of misdirected comic interlude: ancient concepts of justice, ... ( read original story ...)
Catering arm of Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific could be next vendor for food scandal-plagued Covid-19 quarantine centre
Cathay Pacific Catering Services (HK) was invited to submit a bid to supply the Penny’s Bay camp after the previous caterer was fired over allegedly tainted food. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Monetary Authority Reveals Implementation Roadmap for Ongoing Development of Open API Framework
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), which is Hong Kong’s central banking institution that reports directly to the Financial Secretary, has announced the implementation plans for the third and ... ( read original story ...)